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310,181,005. PATBNTED AUG. 1 1, 186s M. RICE.

LOOM AGTUATING SHUTTLE BOX.

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Leners Paten-ENQ. 81,005, dazed August II, 186e.l

IMPROVEMENT. IN LOOMS-ACTUATING SHUTTLE-BOXES.

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Be it known that I, MICHAELiRICE, of Upland, in the county oi Delaware, and State of Pennsylvania1 have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shuttle-Box Motion; and I do hereby declare thatthe follow-ing. is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled -in the art to make and use the.` same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a loom, -withm'ylimproved apparatus applied to it.

Figure 2 represents a section of the same, on the line a: of iig-1.

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The nature of my invention relates to improvements in apparatus for operating shuttle-boxes in looms, which is designed. to simplify and cheapen the same. I e

It consists in suspending the shuttle-.boxes on the outer ends oflevers pivoted to the lay, from the inner ends of which are suspended balancing-weights, and providing a vibgqating wedge-shaped lever', which is operated by a -tappet--wheel, deriving` motion from a pawl actuated by the driving-shaft-Qlwhioh vibrating-lever alternately raises and lowers the outer end of the said shuttle-box lever, as will be more fully described en reference to the accompanying drawings.

A represents the frame of a loom; B, the driving-shaft, which actuates the tappet-wheel shaft C through the medium of parl Dr y E represents a wedge-shaped lever, pivoted at a, and provided. with a weighted lug, F. The o uter end of said lever works between brackets, b and'. The inner end of the same being vibratcd bythe tappets C acting on the aforesaid lug, takes alternately above and below the leverG on the lay, on the outer end oi which lever the shuttle-bex H is supported. A A

When the tappets C-are brought under the lug, the inner end of the lever. E is depressed, so that when tbe lay comes up, tbe lever G rides up the .inclined upper, face of the lever E, the bracket b preventing the lever G from bearing the inner end of the lever E downward, and when the tappets pass from underthe lug F, the lever G passes under.- the inner end of the lever '-E, and is `borne down, the bracket b preventing the'lever'G from raising the inner end of the lever E. f A The pawl is arranged on the driving-shaft, so ns to beactuated at every two picks of the' lay.

'lhe lever-is provided. witha weight to balance the boxes in either position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent- I The shuttle-box-actuating` mechanism, combined and arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

. MICHAEL RICE; Witnesses:

WILLIAM CAIIIPIIIILI.,y J CHN WeLrnNnEN. 

